Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. It’s no fun for either side.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Others, like Guy Kawasaki , have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent enhancements or omissions that can kill your deal. Entrepreneurs in this category are usually dreamers. Emphasize their social commitment, but never mention profit. None of these cases are credible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. It’s no fun for either side.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and more recently added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. Respond to reviews to give a personable picture of you, your company, and your products. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I like to say to first-time entrepreneurs, picking a VC is more permanent than marriage. Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. I guarantee this is a bad VC. Let me explain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2010

Other writers, like Guy Kawasaki, have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent over-enthusiasm or over-confidence that can kill your deal. First, no investor is interested in a company that is only looking to get 1% of a market. All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and more recently added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. Respond to reviews to give a personable picture of you, your company, and your products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

The bad news is that patent trolls can squeeze the lifeblood out of innocent and unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the current mess around Lodsys patent No. A lot of companies, like Lodsys above, buy up software patents that are over-broad, and hold startups hostage, after the fact, through royalties and litigation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2010

In the spirit of highlighting new startup opportunities, I think we need some new companies who can track down and remove unwanted content on the web. These items can kill your business career, as you may remember from the example in Google Results are the Measure of an Entrepreneur. Or is there a better answer? Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

A startup-oriented lawyer may not be able to convince a jury of a guilty man’s innocence, but they can guide your adVenture through the menacing legal shoals it will no doubt face. It is surprising how often entrepreneurs forget this simple fact. They do not work at your company, so there is no way they will have your insights.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 17, 2016

Dave’s note: This week, let’s welcome an expert in employment background checks, Chris Dyer, CEO of PeopleG2, to help us explore one dicey subject that gets lots of entrepreneurs and managers into trouble by being completely unaware of what they cannot ask a candidate in an employment interview. Each head of.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2016

This is truly an inspirational read or listen for any entrepreneur and I can’t recommend it enough. It exemplifies how difficult it is to build a company — even one that extraordinarily successful — and the perils of the trade-offs between growth and cash. The policeman said he matched the specifications of a criminal he was pursuing.

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